Russia Attacks Ukraine - 23 Feb 2022 **Media Thread** NO DISCUSSION

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Former Ukrainian biathlete dies in war - 19-year-old

Yevhen Malyshev, 19, died in battle after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This was announced by the Ukrainian Biathlon Federation last night.

The former Ukrainian biathlete is now mourned by the biathlon world. "Rest in peace", writes the Ukrainian biathlete Dmytro Pidruchny on Instagram.”

Skidskytte: Tidigare ukrainsk skidskyttetalang död i kriget

Illia Ponomarenko
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2,000 civilians have been killed by Russia since February 24.

 

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REVEALED: Roman Abramovich has a large shareholding in the Russian steelmaking firm whose materials are used to make the TANKS which are invading Ukraine, experts claim - as analysts say Chelsea owner transferred his shares eight days before the invasion

Roman Abramovich has shares in Russian firm whose steel helps build tanks | Daily Mail Online

 

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$1 million bounty on Putin offered by Russian businessman

A $1,000,000 bounty for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin was offered to military officers by Russian entrepreneur Alex Konanykhin in a post he published on social media this week, as Russia continued its invasion of Ukraine.
https://m.jpost.com/international/article-699098

Pro-Putin Chechen general who led 'gay purge' killed in Ukraine
https://m.jpost.com/international/article-699032

Russian and Belarusian athletes will compete as neutrals at the Beijing Winter Paralympics, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has said.
Ukraine invasion: Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals at Winter Paralympics

 

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Ukraine requests help to protect nuclear power plants

The United Nations Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has received a request from Ukraine's Nuclear Power Authority to "provide immediate assistance in coordinating activities related to the safety of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and other nuclear facilities," CNN reports.

- The request came when Russia informed the IAEA that their forces have taken control of the territory around Ukraine's nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, says Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi on Tuesday.

Videos published on social media, verified by CNN on Wednesday, show how employees at the nuclear power plant are blocking access roads to the plant, which is one of the largest nuclear power plants in Europe.”

Kriget i Ukraina

 

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March 2 2022
More than 100 Canadian business leaders vow to sell off Russian investments — and call on other investors to do the same | The Star

''As Russian tanks rolling through Ukrainian cities meet fierce local resistance, some of Canada’s top business leaders are fighting the invasion another way — by pulling their money out of Russia.

More than 100 of Canada’s top business leaders and investment managers have signed a letter vowing to sell off all of their Russian investments, and are calling on others investors to do the same''

''In an interview, Seif said business leaders have a moral obligation to push back against Russia’s invasion, and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“As individuals we have to take a stand against this, and we have to fight as best as we can on behalf of the Ukrainian people. They are fighting and defending their home and their freedom, and we have to do our job. If we’re not going to have people there, we have to fight with every other power we can,” said Seif, whose fund management company has already sold off stock it held in Russian companies.''

 

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Russia-Ukraine war live updates: Kharkiv under fresh attack, Biden says Putin more 'isolated' than ever (nbcnews.com)
'Dissident Alexey Navalny calls on Russians to fight against war

'Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny has called on Russians and people worldwide to take to the streets to "fight for peace" and against Putin's war on Ukraine.

"Putin is not Russia. And if there is anything in Russia right now that you can be most proud of, it is those 6824 people who were detained because - without any call - they took to the streets with placards saying 'No War'," a tweet from Navalny's verified Twitter account read on Wednesday."

Navalny called on Russians and Belarusians to protest every weekday and at 2pm on weekends at their city's main square. He also urged people everywhere to protest in front of Russian embassies across the world.'

India charters more flights to evacuate students amid safety concerns
The Indian government has chartered three aircraft to expedite the evacuation of its citizens from Ukraine, Air Force Vice Chief Sandeep Singh said Wednesday at a news briefing in New Delhi.''

''Indians make up about 25 percent of the 76,000 foreign students in Ukraine, according to Ukrainian government data.
Many of them are evacuating through neighboring Poland, which is facilitating their return to India via the Budomierz border checkpoint. In a phone call on Tuesday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked Polish President Andrzej Duda for the assistance.''

 

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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 5 hours ago
Russia's losses as of March 2, according to the indicative estimates by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Zelensky: Think of this number: Almost 6,000 Russians died.
To get what? Get Ukraine? It is impossible.
This is not to be changed by missiles, bombs, tanks, any strikes. We are in our native land. And for the war against us there will be an International Tribunal for them.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Unarmed Enerhodar residents block city entrance to Russian troops, according to Mayor Dmytro Orlov.
Enerhodar is a city in southern Ukraine, home to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the largest power plant in Europe.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Media: Putin wants to reinstate Yanukovych as president of Ukraine.
Viktor Yanukovych is allegedly in Minsk, and the Kremlin is preparing an operation to replace Zelensky with the ex-president ousted by the EuroMaidan Revolution in 2014, according to Ukrainska Pravda’s sources

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 3 hours ago
️88% of Ukrainians believe that Ukraine will successfully fight off Russia, according to a new poll by the Rating group.
The same poll showed that 98% of Ukrainians support the actions of the Armed Forces, while 93% support President Volodymyr Zelensky.

 

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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 3 hours ago
️Nord Stream 2 files for bankruptcy.
According to local officials, the Swiss-registered company responsible for the Kremlin’s energy project has filed for insolvency and laid off all its staff. Swiss officials state U.S sanctions were a death blow for the project.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️ Russia threatens to raze Konotop if it doesn’t surrender.
According to Konotop Mayor Artem Semenikhin, Russian troops delivered an ultimatum to the local authorities. If inhabitants resist, the city will be shelled with heavy artillery.
“I am for fighting,” he said.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️ Poll: Ukrainians' support for NATO, EU integration reaches unprecedented level.
According to a recent poll by the Rating group, 86% of Ukrainians want Ukraine to be part of the European Union, while 76% believe that Ukraine should be a NATO member.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️ Kuleba: Unclear when next round of Ukraine-Russia talks will be held.
Ukraine’s FM said that Kyiv was ready to negotiate, but would not work with “Russian ultimatums.” Kuleba said that Russia’s demands are “the same as those publicly voiced by Putin at the start of the war.”

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 1 hour ago
️ Up to 15,000 people are currently hiding from bombs in the Kyiv metro.
According to Viktor Brahinsky, head of the Kyiv metro, the underground can host up to 100,000 people. The stations have water, bathrooms, food, and medicine at their disposal.

 

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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 44 min ago
️EU diplomats approve new sanctions against Belarus. The sanctions will hit several sectors of the Belarusian economy, including timber, steel and potash.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Russian missiles hit central Kharkiv again.
According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the attack damaged the Kharkiv City Council building, the Palace of Labor, and high-rise buildings.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - Video
️Russian missiles hit central Kharkiv, damaging several residential and government buildings, including the city council.
Video by State Emergency Service of Ukraine

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️According to the State Emergency Service, Russia killed more than 2,000 civilians since the full-scale war began on Feb. 24.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - Video - 6 minutes ago
Irpin, a satellite city on the western outskirts of Kyiv, has suffered multiple Russian attacks since the beginning of the full-scale offensive. A bridge that connects the city to Kyiv was blown up by the Ukrainian forces to block Russian troops. Video: Illia Ponomarenko

 

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Poetins Rusland claimt inname eerste volledige stad Oekraïne
Putin's Russia claims to take Ukraine's first entire city

The port city of Kherson in Ukraine has been completely occupied by Russian troops, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Kherson is the first major regional capital to be completely occupied by the Russians during their attack on the neighboring country that began Thursday. If the claim is correct, of course.

Kherson is a city of 285,000 inhabitants and is located on the Dnieper River, near the Black Sea.

The Ukrainian governor of Kherson stated this morning that the city is completely surrounded and did not speak about the capture of the city. Earlier, the municipality had made announcements that Russian troops had captured the port and the station during fierce fighting that left dozens dead.

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Time running out for sick Ukrainian kids sheltering in hospital bunkers - National | Globalnews.ca
March 1 2022

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Newborn twins are seen sleeping in the bomb shelter of the pediatric ward of Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital on February 28, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Chris McGrath / Getty Images

''According to TIME magazine, most children have been evacuated from Okhmatdyt, but those with life-threatening illness must stay, for now. Several are on life support, or need long chemotherapy sessions for their cancer.

“The saddest thing is that when the siren sounds, we have to go down with the children and parents to the basement,” surgeon Vitaly Demidov told the publication.''

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Mothers tend to their babies that are under medical treatment in the bomb shelter of the pediatric ward of Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital on February 28, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photo by Chris McGrath / Getty Images
“We run five or six times a day in the basement and back.”

 

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Russia-Ukraine war latest news: Biden condemns Putin ‘tyranny’; Russian troops land in Kharkiv - live | World news | The Guardian

8h ago 00:39
Moscow’s stock market will stay closed for the third consecutive day on Wednesday, the Moscow Times reports.

Russian brokers have been ordered to reject sell orders from foreign investors when the market eventually reopens.

2h ago 0 6:10
Summary
The time in Ukraine is 1.10pm. Here is a roundup from the news so far today:

• Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said nearly 6,000 Russians had been killed in the first six days of Moscow’s invasion, and that the Kremlin would not be able to take his country with bombs and airstrikes.
  
• Russian troops have reportedly landed in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second most populous city, according to the security service of Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities said Russian airborne troops landed at approximately 3am local time and engaged in heavy fighting with Ukrainian forces.
  
• Ukrainian authorities say a Russian missile strike at about 8.10am hit a police building and a university in Kharkiv this morning.
• Four more people were killed and nine wounded as a barrage of Russian air and rocket strikes pounded Kharkiv, the local emergency services and mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
  
• Overnight reports said a fire at a hospital in Kharkiv broke out. According to an alert issued just before 3am from Ukraine’s state special communications agency, Russian soldiers attacked a military medical clinical centre hospital in the city’s north.
  
• Russia is claiming to have seized Kherson on the Black Sea in southern Ukraine. However, this is unconfirmed as the city’s mayor has so far said only that Russian forces have taken control of the railway station and the port.
  
• Ukraine is set to receive more Stinger and Javelin missiles from abroad, as well as another shipment of Turkish drones, according to Ukrainian defence minister Oleksii Reznikov.
  
• The Kremlin said Russian officials were ready to hold a second round of talks with Ukraine on Wednesday but it was not clear if Ukrainian officials would turn up.
  
• European Union diplomats have approved new sanctions against Belarus for its supporting role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the French presidency of the EU confirmed. EU diplomats have approved new sanctions against Belarusian people who are playing a role in the attacks to Ukraine, Reuters reported.
• The European Commission has proposed to grant temporary protection to people fleeing war in Ukraine, including a residence permit and access to employment and social welfare.
  
• China won’t join the US and European governments in imposing financial sanctions on Russia, the country’s bank regulator has announced.
• Russia cancelled an attempt to send four of its warships through Turkish waters into the Black Sea at Turkey’s request, Foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said, adding the decision was made before Ankara closed the straits over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
  
• The United Nations said that at least 136 civilians have been killed in the invasion, although the real number of people is likely to be much higher.
• Russia’s largest lender, Sberbank, is leaving the European market as its subsidiaries there face large cash outflows and threats to the safety of employees and property, the bank said on Wednesday.

 

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[URL='https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/mar/02/ukraine-news-russia-war-kyiv-kharkiv-russian-invasion-vladimir-putin-joe-biden-latest-live-updates']Russia-Ukraine war latest: Putin’s troops besiege Kherson as Zelenskiy says ‘they have orders to erase us all’ – live | World news | The Guardian[/URL]

31m ago 08:11
Talks between Ukraine and Russia will resume today, CNN is reporting, citing a Ukrainian presidential aide.

The second round of talks is expected to comprise of the same representatives present at the first round of talks on Monday.

The aide told CNN: Now it’s official. The second round of talks between Ukraine and the occupier will take place today.

The location of the talks has not yet been confirmed. On Monday, talks took place in Belarus, near the Belarus-Poland border.

21m ago 08:22
The Ukrainian port city of Mariupol is suffering mass casualties and a water outage as it defends itself from a nonstop onslaught by Russian forces, according to its mayor Vadym Boichenko.

In a live broadcast on Ukrainian TV, Boichenko said:

The enemy occupying forces of the Russian Federation have done everything to block the exit of civilians from the city of half a million people.

Mariupol’s mayor said Russian forces had been “flattening us non-stop for 12 hours now”, the Interfax news agency reported.

We cannot even take the wounded from the streets, from houses and apartments today, since the shelling does not stop.

8m ago 08:36
At least four people were killed and nine wounded after a fresh attack in Kharkiv this morning, the Ukrainian state emergency service said.

There are reports that Russian missiles have once again hit the centre of Ukraine’s second largest city, striking an area close to the city council building.

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Kharkiv, a city of 1.5 million people, has been turned into a bombed-out wasteland of ruined buildings and debris after intense shelling and airstrikes by Russian forces.

After an air strike on Wednesday morning, the roof of a police building in the centre of the city collapsed as it was engulfed in flames.

2m ago 13:44

 

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The international order is under attack — and Ukraine might not be the end of it | CBC News
"There are moments in history," Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Monday afternoon as her government announced new measures to respond to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, "when the great struggle between freedom and tyranny comes down to one fight in one place, which is waged for all of humanity."

 

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Russia-Ukraine War: What to know on Day 7 of Russian assault | AP News
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POSSIBLE TALKS
A Kremlin spokesman said a Russian delegation will be ready Wednesday evening to resume talks with Ukrainian officials about the war in Ukraine Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that “in the second half of the day, closer to evening, our delegation will be in place to await Ukrainian negotiators.”

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba also said his country was ready.

WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE GROUND
A 40-mile (64-kilometer) convoy of hundreds of Russian tanks and other vehicles advanced slowly on Kyiv, a city of nearly 3 million people. ...

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WHAT BIDEN SAID
Biden used his firs t State of the Union address to highlight the resolve of a Western alliance that has worked to rearm the Ukrainian military and adopt tough sanctions — including closing U.S. airspace to all Russian flights.

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RUSSIA INCREASINGLY ISOLATED
Russia found itself increasingly isolated, hit by sanctions that have thrown its economy into turmoil and left the country practically friendless, apart from a few nations like China, Belarus and North Korea. ...

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THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION
It’s worsening. Roughly 874,000 people have fled Ukraine and the U.N. refugee agency warned the number could cross the 1 million mark soon. Countless others have taken shelter underground.

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DEVELOPMENTS AT THE UNITED NATIONS
The U.N. General Assembly will vote Wednesday on a resolution demanding that Russia immediately stop using force against Ukraine and withdraw its military from the country, and condemning Moscow’s decision “to increase the readiness of its nuclear forces.”

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EXCLUSIVE: Voice message reveals Russian military unit's catastrophic losses in Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
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The Kyiv Independent obtained a WhatsApp audio message recorded by a woman residing in the city of Aleysk in Russia’s Altai region some 3,500 kilometers east of Kyiv, the home base for the 35th Brigade.

In the voice message, an unidentified woman weeps telling her fellow WhatsApp group member that the local “tank brigade” was “totally destroyed in Ukraine.”

Audio: https://kyivindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/AUD-20220301-WA0000.mp3

In particular, she mentions that “just 18 out of 150 guys survived,” probably meaning one of the brigade’s formations was destroyed by Ukrainian troops. Besides, the speaker says the first batch of 45 coffins, mostly young people from the town and villages nearby, were coming to Aleysk on the day of the recorded voice message.

The weeping woman also says some of the killed were her neighbors and acquaintances. She particularly mentions a military service-member named Evgeniy Zhilin. This name can be found in the leaked register of 120,000 Russian soldiers allegedly involved in the invasion of Ukraine published on March 1 by Ukraine’s Center for Defense Strategies, a think tank. There is also a deleted VK social media account of a Evgeniy Zhilin from Aleysk.

According to the woman, the killed were mostly very young men. The local community found out about their deaths the day before the recording was made, and it mourned the loss.

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Meanwhile, Russian leadership continues to refuse to publish any exact data on casualties of its war in Ukraine. In most cases, Russian propaganda outlets report on Russia’s “special military operation in Ukraine” saying that no Russian casualties have been sustained.

But as of early March 1, the Ukrainian military reported as many as 5,710 Russian manpower casualties since the all-out invasion’s first day on Feb. 24, which is comparable to Russian military losses in the two-year-long First Chechen War.

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Alec Luhn on Twitter
"Are you running away?" "Do you love Putin?" "Don't you use Telegram?" Several young men trying to leave Russia said they were questioned by the FSB agents who scrolled through their phones & laptops. Some were turned back. Scary times

"Are you running?" At the border, Russians who have decided to leave the country are biased (zona.media)
After Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, some Russians decided to leave the country or move abroad for a while. Many of them talk about lengthy interrogations of border guards who were interested in the purpose and duration of the trip, as well as their attitude to the president and the events in Ukraine. Mediazona has collected several such testimonies.

 

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Pete Muntean on Twitter
NEW DETAILS: The FAA says Russian aircraft that fly into US airspace could be INTERCEPTED. Ban starts 9 p.m. EST for *all* Russian aircraft including charters and leases.

 

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Belarus president stands in front of map indicating Moldova invasion plans

Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was reportedly addressing his security council Tuesday while standing in front of a battle map of Ukraine.

The map appeared to show troop movement plans and infrastructure targets in Ukraine, as well as targets in Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria.

 

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Emilio Morenatti on Twitter
Local militiaman Valery, 37, carries a child as he helps a fleeing family across a bridge destroyed in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2. 2022.


Joel Gunter on Twitter
Horrible conversation with the deputy mayor of Mariupol. Says residential areas heavily bombed, including his father's neighbourhood. "The situation is awful, we are near to a humanitarian catastrophe. We have been under more than 15 hours of continuous shelling without pause."

Joel Gunter on Twitter
“One district of the city is nearly totally destroyed ... We cannot count the number of victims there but we believe at least hundreds of people are dead. We cannot go in to retrieve the bodies. My father lives there, I cannot reach him, I don't know if he is alive or dead."

Joel Gunter on Twitter
“The Russian forces are several kilometres away on all sides. The Ukrainian army is brave and they will continue to defend the city, but Russia does not fight with their army, they just destroy districts. “We believe in our Ukrainian army, but we are in a terrible situation.”

DW News on Twitter - Video
"We think that it's the last safe day in Kyiv." Residents are rushing to board trains at the city's central station as a large Russian military convoy approaches Ukraine's capital. Many fear the time window to leave is closing fast.

Arezou Rezvani on Twitter - Video
The lovely city of Lviv has so far been spared the worst of Russia’s invasion. But civilians are still arming up. Daily weapons trainings are free and open to the public. And starting today, you can no longer buy alcohol anywhere in Ukraine.